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October, 27 2005 - Saint Louis University Library Associates' 2005 Saint Louis Literary Awards Presentation and Dinner

What: Annual Presentation of the Saint Louis Literary Award to Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Richard Ford.

Where: Presentation--Anheuser-Busch Auditorium, John Cook School of Business, Saint Louis University; Cocktails/Dinner at The Coronado

When: October 27, 2005

Time: 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Ticket Prices: This Awards Program remained free and open to the public; Dinner by invitation only.

Beneficiary: Saint Louis Literary Award

Host(s): Saint Louis University Library Associates

Honoree(s): Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Richard Ford, 2005 Saint Louis Literary Award; Aaron Belz and Aaron McClendon, co-recipients of the Walter J. Ong, S.J. Award

Gala Chairperson(s): Hannah Langsam, Saint Louis Literary Award

President(s): Joseph C. Carpenter, Saint Louis University Library Associates

Patrons: Circle-The Family of Hunt and Peggy Benoist, J. Russell Bley, Jr., M/M Joel Cooley, Joseph Clarkson Carpenter, James and Dudley Grove, Dr. Robert A. Koetting, M/M Lawrence Langsam, M/M Philip H. Loughlin, Eileen Kistner McLoughlin, Mrs. J.F. Gerard Mudd, Gillian Noero In Memory of Jack Kistner, Mrs. Daniel L. Schlafly, Dr./Mrs. George Thoma; Ms. Elizabeth Ahlering, David P. Allen, Ms. Teresa A. Bryce, Dr./Mrs. James L. Donahoe, M/M Joseph Forshaw, Mary Gene Hyde, Hugh and Katherine Law, Lisa D. and Robert W. McLaughlin, David and Susan Mesker, Helen and I.E. Millstone, Julian and Gibney Moore, Mrs. Dorothy Mahaffey Moore, Richard Mueller, Ph.D., Eileen H. Searls, Jean and Dermott Smith, Anonymous Donor; Literary Friends-Mary A. Bruemmer, Carol Dowd, Kim Eberlein, Silas McKinley, Jr., Farnell Parsons, M/M Adam W. Randle, Ron Sauget

Introductions: Sara van der Berg, Ph.D., Chair of the English Department, Saint Louis University for the Walter J. Ong, S.J. Award; Harold K. Bush, Ph.D., Associate Professor of English, Saint Louis University, for the Saint Louis Literary Award.

Invocation: Father Terry Dempsey, S.J.

Welcome: Joseph C. Carpenter, Saint Louis Literary Award

Speaker: Richard Ford, recipient of the 2005 Saint Louis Literary Award

Sponsors: The Saint Louis Library Associates

Attendance: 100 guests for the presentation; 80 for cocktails/dinner

Attire: Business/Cocktail

Information: Joan Hecker 314-520-3564

Board of Directors: Officers-Joseph Clarkson Carpenter, President; Hugh R. Law, 1st Vice President; Rosemary Rosenthal, 2nd Vice President; Richard E. Mueller, Ph.D., Secretary; Lisa D. McLaughlin, Treasurer; David P. Allen, Russ Bley, Jr., Ruth A. Bryant, Teresa A. Bryce, Jack T. Byrne, Ph.D., Ellen Cooley, Richard J. Dames, M.D., Kim Eberlein, Sarah Fehlig, Anthony Garnett, James H. Grove, Jr., Ann Holton, Barbara Seaman Kelley, Dr. Robert A. Koetting, Berry Lane, Hannah S. Langsam, Philippe de Laperouse, Eileen Kistner McLoughlin, Julian P. Moore, Christy Neuhoff, Gillian Noero, Bonnie O'Keefe, Mary Ann O'Reilly, Farnell Parsons, Dory Potts, Adam W. Randle, Ronald J. Sauget, Jane von Koenal, Cindy Wehmeyer; Emeritus-Wilma Messing, Dorothy Mahaffey Moore

Blacktie Photos by: Terry Baer

Cindy Wehmeyer; Hannah Langsam, Saint Louis Literary Award Chair; Harold K. Bush, Ph.D., Associate Professor of English, Saint Louis University; Richard Ford, Pulitizer Prize winning novelist and the 2005 Saint Louis Literary Award recipient; Joe Carpenter, President, Saint Louis Library Associates...
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Saint Louis University Library Associates' 2005 Saint Louis Literary Award The Saint Louis University Library Associates presented the Saint Louis Literary Award to Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Richard Ford. Ford accepted the Award on Thursday, October 27, 2005 at a 5:00 PM ceremony, John Cook School of Business' Anheuser-Busch Auditorium, Saint Louis University. This program remained free and open to the public. The Saint Louis Library Associates Annual Literary Award dinner followed at the Coronado Ballroom, 3701 Lindell Boulevard, across the street from the auditorium. Richard Ford has written five novels: Independence Day, Wildlife, The Sportswriter, The Ultimate Good Luck, and A Piece of My Heart plus three collections of short stories, Rock Springs, Women with Men, and A Multitude of Sins. Ford received both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Independence Day, the first book to win both prizes. In 2001 he earned the PEN/Malamud Award for excellence in short fiction. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. According to Harold Bush, Jr., PhD, and Associate Professor of English at Saint Louis University, Ford writes with a sense of place. “Movement is central not only to his personal life, but also to many of the works he has written. One might say that Ford’s compulsive movement is a symptom of our postmodern culture, and our simultaneous longing for and resistance to setting down deep roots. He has a longing for home, and this longing occurs in American culture at the end of the twentieth century in which finding home is becoming more and more difficult.” Besides his prolific writing career, Mr. Ford has taught creative writing and literature at Harvard, Princeton and Northwestern Universities and at Williams College. He currently teaches intermediate and advanced writing at Bowdoin College. The mission of the Library Associates is enhancing the visibility of the Saint Louis University libraries in order to promote the development of their collections and services. The prestigious Saint Louis Literary Award originated as The Wilma and Rosell Messing, Jr. Award in 1967. In the decades since, literary giants from around the world have traveled to our community to accept this award. Past recipients have included Margaret Drabble, Stephen E. Ambrose, David McCullough, Tom Wolfe, Joyce Carol Oates, John Updike, Saul Bellow, James A. Michener, Arthur Miller, Howard Nemerov, Tennessee Williams, George Plimpton, and Henry Steele Commager. The honor today, known simply as the Saint Louis Literary Award, is presented annually by the Saint Louis University Library Associates and a select group of Patrons. For more information about either the award or the dinner, please contact Joan Hecker at 314-520-3564 or email at slula@slu.edu.